Device for exhibiting goods.



.No. 744,461. 4 PATENTED NOV.'l7, 190s.

M. J. BEBB & B. G. EATON.

DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING GOODS.

- APPLIOATIbN FILED JAN..3, 1903.

no MODEL;

MAURICE J BEBB, OF XENIA, AND EDWARD GEORGE EATON,

UNITED STATES v Fatented November 1 7, 19652 P TENT OFFICE.

ATHENS, OHIO.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 744,461, dated. November 17, 1903.

Application filed January 3, 1903. Serial No. 137,654. (No model.) I

' neckwear, laces, shirt-waists, towels, &c.

The details of construction,arrangement, and operation of parts are as hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which;'

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the principal form or embodiment of our invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section of the lower portion of the device shown in Fig. 1.-

Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of the parts shown in Fig. 1, the horizontal spring-arms being shown detached. Fig; 3 shows a modification in the suspending device.

1 designates a rod provided at its upper end with a swiveled hook 2, by which it is adapted for suspension from the ceiling or any other fixed overhead support. The attachment may be made directly to a screw eye or by a cord or other device. The said rod may be made in sections and the same connected by a nut or turnbuckle 3'. We propose, however, to substitute any other connecting device which may be preferred. On the lower end of the rod 1 is secured a hub 4:, (see Figs. 2 and'3,) the same having two lateral flanges 6 and'7 and being provided with a central socket or'bore to receive the rod 1, to which it is fastened by means of a cross-pin 8. The rod lmay, however, pass entirely through a hub 4, (see Fig. 3 and provided with a cross-pin 8 below said hub, which arrangement permits rotation of the display-rack proper. Both the flanges 6 and 7 of the hub 4 or 4: are provided with vertical coincident holes or openings 9 for the purpose of receiving the bent ends 10 of horizontal arms 11. As shown in Fig. 1 the said arms are practically U-shaped. and extended horizontally as well as radially from'the hub 4. v Their ends 10 are bent at right angles and in opposite directions vertically. The

arms 11 being made of spring material, it is apparent that their inner ends maybe pressed toward each other, as shown in Fig. 3, for the purpose of attaching them to the flanges 6 and 7 or detaching them therefrom, as the case may be. When the ends 10 are passed through the coincident holes 9, as shown in in Figs. 1 and 2, the resiliency of the arms they are held extended horizontally. In order to hold them in radial position-that is to say, to prevent their rotationI provide grooves 12 in the lower flange 6, said grooves being radial and coinciding with the openings 9. The grooves are of such depth as to re ceive about half the thickness of the lower portion of the arms 11, as illustrated in Fig. 2. By this means when the arms 11 have been'duly set in place, as indicated,the grooves '12 serve as lateral stops or shoulders,'pre- Venting any rotary movement of the arms, so that the whole series are held immovable and equidistant. In other words, the arms are thus preventedfrom falling together or c0l= lapsing, and the goods are thereby displayed to the best advantage. This construction and combinationof parts in no wise hinders the convenient and speedy removal of any particular arm or series of arms as conditions may require.

. Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. The improved device for displaying goods, consisting of a vertical suspending-rod, a hub-having a central longitudinal bore to receive said rod and provided with horizontal flanges having coincident Vertical openings, and the lower one provided with radial grooves which are coincident with the openin gs therein, and a series of U shaped springarms having their ends bent vertically in. op-

holdsthem thus engaged or locked, whereby of a goods-display device, the same consistposite directions, and adapted to engage the havingradialgrooves leading from each hole, openings and grooves in the said flanges, as and for the purpose specified. whereby they are held detachably yet 1111- MAURIOE J. BEBE. movably While in use, substantially as shown EDXVARD GEORGE EATON. and described. Witnesses as to signature of Maurice John 2. As an improved article of manufacture, Bebb: the hub adapted for use as the central part FRANK H. DEAN,

I. K. ARNER. XVitnessesas to signature of Edward G. Eaton:

L. A. Koons, H. R. RAMSEY.

ing of acylindrical elongated body having an integral, radial, circumferential flange near each end, the tWo flanges being provided with coincident Vertical holes and the lower one 

